Rebekah Coffman is a historian, preservationist, and curator currently serving as curator of religion and community history at the Chicago History Museum where she leads the Chicago Sacred initiative. Her interdisciplinary work is at the intersection of religious identity and the built environment and explores themes of tangible and intangible heritages in material and visual culture through place-based, community-centered approaches.

She has been a contributing curator to the Religion, Art, and Technology Lab, curating the 2021 digital exhibition Tangible/Intangible, and founded the Sacred Shift Project in 2019, an ongoing research project surveying religious buildings adaptively reused by different faith traditions.

Her research has been recognized, including NYU’s Gavin Stamp Award in Adaptive Reuse in 2019, a commendation by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2020, and Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum’s 2023 Lindsey Jones Memorial Research award.